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India-based Sahara Group is reported to be in advanced talks to acquire the New York property.

The long voyage of the fuel-laden Japanese ghost ship is over as it sank 6,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Alaska.

Thanks to some creative accounting and the insertion of a single word in 2006 allows the company to avoid paying corporation tax in the UK.

Shinji Kagawa is hoping to make the move to England next season, according to Borussia Dortmund general manager Michael Zorc, with the star a reported target for Manchester United.

The storm also triggered power outages affecting more than 200,000 homes in northern Japan which were still without electricity.

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Japan is going through a period of very hard choices which the current Prime Minister of its coalition government Yoshihiko Noda, is pressing the Diet, Japan's Parliament, to address. On 30 March 2012, Prime Minister Noda submitted laws to double the present sales tax of five per cent, proposing a rise to eight per cent in April 2014 and then to 10 per cent in April 2015. His determination, if necessary, to stake his Government's survival on these laws being passed by the Diet was made pl...

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Company gives warning over “grossly unjust”proposal.

As Japan ignores Amnesty praise and puts three prisoners to death, IBTimes UK looks at the countries with the bloodiest execution records.

Reports suggest there will be no backwards-compatibility with the PS3 and Sony will demand fee to play used games.

Lloyd's chief executive Richard Ward points to natural catastrophes such as heavy floods in Thailand and Japan's Tohoku earthquake leading to massive claims.

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World leaders concerned over possibility of nuclear weapons falling into hands of terrorists.

The reactor has been shut for maintenance.

He's just 24 and is already showing Fernando Alonso a thing or two, but who is Sergio Perez?

Obama is in South Korea as part of the global summit on nuclear security in Seoul, beginning on Monday.

The ship was discovered by patrolling aircraft and did not pose any environmental danger.

World's largest anime convention returns after Japan tsunami and nuclear disaster led to cancellation of 2011 event.

Investment bank's culture questioned again as more ex-employees go on the attack.

On Monday 19 March 2012, Seattle News Media informed its readers that the city's Mayor, Mike McGinn will fly to Chongqing this week but: "...hizzoner...will have trouble matching up with his opposite number while there (because) party boss Bo Xilai was fired and disgraced last week, relieved of his duties as Chongqing's Communist Party Secretary in China's biggest political scandal in two decades..."

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This year is the 100th anniversary of a rather special gift... from Japan to the United States.

Ted baker, the British designer brand, has reported a rise of 14.9 percent in its revenues for the year ended January 28, 2012 at £215.6 million, compared to £187.7 million in the previous year. The group's profit before tax increased by 0.1 percent to £24.3 million and basic earnings per share rose by 1.7 percent to 42.2 pence.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research survey of investors shows increasing confidence in Europe and growing fears over emerging markets.

Apple has sold 40,000 new iPads an hour since it launched last Friday.

Japan has threatened to intercept any North Korean rocket launched over its territory.

Six reasons you might want to start imbibing some of your homemade amber nectar.

Harvard researchers recommend eating whole grains and warn Asian diet building up risk.

North Korea is set to launch satellite in April to mark the 100th birth anniversary of its founder Kim Il- sung, a move widely seen as a violation of the moratorium on missile and nuclear testing.